It's obvious by now that I've been overplaying this record, but hell, isn't that what Favorite Records From The Year That Just Ended are for? It is my greatest hope (well, one of several greatest hopes) that at least one of you likes this record as much as I do.

0:22:09 )

Jerry Vale

Go Chase a Moonbeam

MP3

I'm going to have a long, stern talk with my parents for keeping this from me for so long.

0:27:29 )

Ictus

Kickin' the Bik-Bok

7"

Freddy Fresh, I hope to shake your hand someday and thank you for releasing the slamminest 45s I've ever heard.

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0:30:00 )

Velvet Monkeys

Everything is Right

Homework #103

compilation

*

0:39:42 )

Del Vetts

Last Time Around

Nuggets 4xCD

compilation

0:42:02 )

Thee Headcoates

Thief!

7"

0:44:33 )

The Streets

Don't Mug Yourself

Original Pirate Material

Oy, Oy, Oy.

0:47:41 )

The Du-Droppers

Dead Broke

The Groove Story: R&B From the Radio Corporation Vol. 2

compilation

*

0:50:15 )

Eric Mercury

A Gift to You

Funky Sounds Nurtured in the Fertile Soil of Memphis...

0:53:06 )

Red Hot Chili Peppers

Fight Like a Brave

12"

0:56:31 )

The Homosexuals

Neutron Lover

The Homosexuals' CD

re-issue

*

1:02:41 )

Melvin van Peebles

So Many Bars

What the... You Mean I Can't Sing?

re-issue

*

1:04:42 )

The Victims

Television Addict

Murder Punk Vol. 1

compilation

1:08:50 )

Neung Phak

Diew tob Diew Tob

Neung Phak

I just realized now that while pronouncing this band's name aloud, it sounded very much like I was saying a naughty word.

*

1:22:43 )

Metal Urbain

Panik

Anarchy in Paris!

I'm pretty proud to have been able to book Metal Urbain to play the last WFMU Record Fair, and if you'd like to hear the archive of that performance, it would very much suit your best interests to click here.

Actually, I quite like art galleries. The last time I went to one, I was fortunate enough to get invited to the post-opening dinner where a friend of mine engaged the artist and all others assembled (including, weirdly enough, a visiting consulate from a foreign nation) in a drunken conversation having to do with various famous people's breasts. Just as the conversation was really beginning to heat up, the Consulate excused himself, shook all of our hands, and to my friend said: "good luck with the tits." Which was far and away one of my favorite moments from the calendar year that's just ended.

4 CD box set of more Pere Ubu and Ubu-related oddness than you'll ever need.

2:17:59 )

Kraut

Juvenile Justice

Wheting the Scythe

2:20:58 )

Asta Kask

Dom Far Aldrig Mej

Kravallsymfonier 2xCD

reissue -- How many Swede punk bands can YOU count?

*

2:23:05 )

Grundies

You Look Good

History of Memphis Garage Rock

compilation

*

2:25:37 )

KISS

All the Way

Hotter Than Hell

2:28:08 )

The Master Don Committee

Get Off my Tip

Vintage Beats 2xCD-r

2:37:54 )

Freddy Fresh

Music for Swingers

7"

(mixed with the French news from 1963)

2:44:20 )

Guns n' Wankers

Nervous

Hardcore EP

featuring members of Snuff. I'm very proud to live in America, if only because I can say "wanker" on the radio and not get in trouble while simultaneously shocking and offending people who live in bloody England.

2:48:07 )

Neil Young

All Along the Watchtower

Road Rock Vol. 1

backup vocal from Chrissie Hynde of the Pretenders. Yet another Mometers cover.